{"id":1927,"date":"2010-10-28T10:52:05","date_gmt":"2010-10-28T10:52:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=1927"},"modified":"2010-10-28T10:52:05","modified_gmt":"2010-10-28T10:52:05","slug":"htf-appoints-new-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=1927","title":{"rendered":"HTF appoints new Director"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Dr No\u00ebl James will take over the role of Director at the Historic Towns Forum (HTF) on 1 November.<br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\nNo\u00ebl comes from a research background, and joins HTF with several years\u2019 experience in the heritage sector. She has a particular personal interest in the built environment and is keen to promote partnership working across all areas of historic towns. \u201cIt is an important and interesting time to be working with the Forum, more so now that issues such as climate change, sustainability and transport, which so greatly affect historic towns, have come to the fore. I am eager to build on the impressive foundations that the current Director has left, and I wish Chris well and extend my thanks to her for all her hard work over the years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Outgoing Director, Chris Winter, said that she was sad to be leaving in many ways as the Forum and its Members and Partners had become a large part of her life. \u201cIt is time to move on\u201d she added, \u201cfor me, and for the Forum. I wish No\u00ebl well and will watch with great interest as the Forum continues to grow and thrive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The recent Annual Conference, \u2018Climate change: mitigation and adaptation in historic towns\u2019 held in Oxford, showed that there is an appetite to address the aforementioned issues in the year ahead, as well as to focus on community engagement and tourism.<\/p>\n<p>One of the Forum\u2019s immediate aims is to highlight the value of historic towns as places to work, live and visit, and as drivers in promoting the economic upturn through regeneration and tourism. The Forum would very much like to hear from new partners, sponsors and members who would like to become involved with their work.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.historictownsforum.org\/node\/699\" target=\"_blank\">www.historictownsforum.org\/node\/699<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr No\u00ebl James will take over the role of Director at the Historic Towns Forum (HTF) on 1 November. No\u00ebl comes from a research background, and joins HTF with several years\u2019 experience in the heritage sector. She has a particular &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=1927\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1927"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1928,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1927\/revisions\/1928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}